STEVEN SEIDENBERG
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Praise for plain sight

The text of PLAIN SIGHT relentlessly questions notions of thinking and being, setting out various propositions about life, thought, and perception in a way that persuades not merely with argument, but with music. The resulting experience is a thrilling 'excavation of the nous,' drawing us into a realm where point of view, connotation, misdirection, and other rhetorical and prestidigitational devices are deployed in a tender but unyielding attack on the illusions we share. It also manages to be a really useful advice book where '[p]rophetic murmurs sough from every roadside gulch.' Open it at random and take a chance section to heart for the day or in relation to a particular problem. Seriously. And then, again, there is the music—the sound of words taking off into an infinite perspective of thought. That the reader gets to fly along is the pleasure and triumph of PLAIN SIGHT."—Laura Moriarty

plain sight’s paragraphs—philosophical and musical—presume the dominance of sight as evasive conceptual weapon and uncode its powers, opening to pinnacles of concept and negation, of ventriloquy and linguistic imagination. These extremes gather in the middle, the text suspended in radical, elliptical resistance. If there is a narrative of this work, it is an epic recasting of philosophical language. It falls into noise, “a throng of wounds” possessed by a subject, a nearly criminal “I” unmoored from expectation and its obligations to “tow-lines.” It stumbles into commonplaces and platitudes that clomp over its elevated distances to bring one closer to what is near, the immanent concern of this exhilarating and scary text. —Carla Harryman

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  • Portfolios
    • The Architecture of Silence
    • The Plastic Flowers of Staglieno
    • Neolithic Dorset
    • Venetian Gas Valve Covers
    • Baobab: Migrant Tent City, Rome
    • London Cauling
    • Squatting in Rome: Salumeria Apartments
    • Rome squares
    • Tokyo tape
    • Pipevalve: Berlin
    • Kanazawa vacancy
    • Czech cemetery dumpsters
    • Hospital trash, Thailand
    • Choshi
    • Ward
    • Forest Beach Bollards
  • Photography books
    • Architecture of Silence
    • Pipevalve: Berlin
  • Literary Work
    • Works of Literature
    • Translations
    • Readings
    • Audiobooks
  • About
  • C.V.
  • Press
  • Contact